Wednesday 2nd October 1918

Billets in Creazzo.

Training continued.

Pte. Thomas Alfred Simpson (see 25^th August) was admitted via 69^th Field Ambulance and 24^th Casualty Clearing Station to 51^st Stationary Hospital; he was suffering from influenza.

A postcard was sent to Capt. Dick Bolton MC (see 29^th September) who had recently departed on thirty days’ leave to England. The postcard, posted from Vicenza and addressed to Capt. Bolton at 8 Gloucester Street, London, S.W.1, appears to be from someone with whom he had struck up a friendship whilst billeted in Creazzo; “I am very sorry that your departure has been so ready. I present to you my salutations, also for my family, and thanking you for your amiability. We have already consumed the tea that you had presented us. I wish you a good recreation and I hope to see you again in Creazzo”.

Images by kind permission of Henry Bolton

2Lt. Keith Sagar Bain (see 16^th September), who had suffered wounds to his right leg and buttock during the trench raid on 26^th August, was transferred from an Officers Convalescent Hospital in Portofino to 11^th General Hospital in Genoa, suffering from jaundice.

Pte. James Arthur Markinson MM (see 3^rd May), serving in France with 2DWR, was posted to First Army Rest Camp for two weeks.

2Lt. George Clifford Sugden (see 12^th September), who was home on leave (details unknown), was married, at St. Matthew’s Parish Church in Hull, to Muriel Rutter.